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D7.5: Sustainability Plan

2024 , Meijer, Ingeborg , Lindner, Ralf

This deliverable describes the plans for carrying the knowledge produced during the project into future actions, projects and communities.

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Public sector organisations as agents of transformations

2023 , Jackwerth-Rice, Thomas , Afghani, Nof , Daimer, Stephanie , Lindner, Ralf , Wittmann, Florian

The demand for a more active role of the state in transformation processes towards a more sustainable development of society raises the question of what capabilities Public Sector Organizations (PSO) would need in order to fulfill this role and to contribute to tackling wicked problems such as climate change. Being able to contribute to the transformation towards a sustainable society requires new organizational capabilities, however. In particular, PSOs acting as agents of transformation must focus on problem-solving instead of simply executing bureaucratic procedures. To date, little research on the capabilities required by PSOs seeking to take on the role as agents of transformation has been conducted. This article uses the three capabilities of problem-oriented governance as a heuristic for analyzing managerial and organizational routines facilitating transformative work. In fact, the paper presents a model to systematically analyze the organizational capabilities a specific PSO might require to take a more active role in shaping transformation processes. The article therefore asks which formal structures within PSO might strengthen the latters’ problem-solving capabilities and put them in a position to shape transformation processes more actively. This conception of PSO’s capabilities actively supporting transformations will be empirically illustrated and critically assessed based on semi-structured expert interviews in PSO in the context of the German environmental policy.

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Introduction: Technology Assessment Beyond National Boundaries

2023 , Hennen, Leonhard , Peissl, Walter , Hahn, Julia , Ladikas, Miltos , Est, Rinie van , Lindner, Ralf

Modern societies are immensely permeated by technologies and thus also dependent on them. Increasingly, this is also true for countries in the global South. As a result, questions about the interdependencies of technology and society, the possible mutual influences and the social governance of technology are becoming a global challenge.

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D5.5: Policy brief: strengthening open responsible research and innovation

2023 , Griessler, Erich , Berghäuser, Hendrik , Hüttel, Emil Bories , Brasil, André , Bührer-Topçu, Susanne , Carlsen, Signe , Foss Ballo, Ingrid , Ryan, Thomas Kjeldager , Klippe, Wouter van der , Lindner, Ralf , Meijer, Ingeborg , Mejlgaard, Niels , Otero-Hermida, Paula , Perruchas, François , Rommetveit, Kjetil , Stack, Shauna , Strand, Roger , Wicher, Magdalena , Wienand-Sangaré, Carolina , Wooley, Richard , Yorulmaz, Merve

In this policy brief, SUPER MoRRI results and insights are presented in a concise form, drawing from various studies conducted in the project

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D1.4: SUPER MoRRI final report

2024 , Lindner, Ralf , Woolley, Richard , Berghäuser, Hendrik , Brasil, André , Bührer-Topçu, Susanne , Flipse, Steven , Griessler, Erich , Ryan, Thomas Kjeldager , Llorente Lopez, Carolina , Meijer, Ingeborg , Revuelta de la Poza, Gema , Rommetveit, Kjetil , Stack, Shauna , Strand, Roger , Yaghmaei, Emad

This final SUPER MoRRI deliverable summarises all the results from the project and gives overall recommendations based on the project's insights

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Report on the Impact of Science

2023 , Bührer, Susanne , Feidenheimer, Alexander , Frietsch, Rainer , Karaulova, Maria , Lindner, Ralf , Schubert, Torben

Im Rahmen des vom BMBF geförderten Vorhabens wurde zunächst eine detaillierte Bestandsaufnahme der akademischen Literatur zum Thema wissenschaftlicher Impact sowie zu existierenden Impactmesssystemen und -methodiken durchgeführt. Aufbauend darauf wurden zwei Workshops mit nationalen und internationalen Expert/-innen durchgeführt, um die Erkenntnisse aus der Literaturrecherche zu spiegeln und kritisch zu diskutieren. Insgesamt hat sich gezeigt, dass ein klarer Bedarf, ja sogar eine Notwendigkeit existiert, dem gesellschaftlichen Impact von Wissenschaft und dem Wissenschaftssystem mehr Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken - mehr als dies in der Vergangenheit in Deutschland der Fall war. Unter wissenschaftlichem Impact verstehen wir den Beitrag, den Forschung für die Gesellschaft leistet. Dies impliziert, dass die Gesellschaft - oder ihre Subsysteme - die Richtungen und Ziele dieser Beiträge definiert. Gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen oder gesellschaftliche Entwicklungsziele könnten einen allgemeinen Rahmen für solche Definitionen bieten.

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The shape of global technology assessment

2023 , Ladikas, Miltos , Hahn, Julia , Hennen, Leonhard , Est, Rinie van , Peissl, Walter , Lindner, Ralf

This chapter draws tentative conclusions from the findings of the book contributions with regard to possible future ways to organise TA on a global scale. These considerations comprise a discussion of possible organisational shapes that can support the global interchange and sharing of TA capacities, and increase its political relevance and operability on a global level. Beyond such medium- and long-term aspirations, the outlook reflects on more short-term practical steps that could be taken within the globalTA Network to improve interchange of knowledge and expertise, engage in joint projects and mutually foster analytical and methodological capacities.

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D5.4: Analytical synthesis report of experimental cases

2024 , Griessler, Erich , Berghäuser, Hendrik , Hüttel, Emil Boris , Brasil, André , Bührer-Topçu, Susanne , Carlsen, Signe , Ballo, Ingrid Foss , Ryan, Thomas Kjeldager , Klippe, Wouter van der , Lindner, Ralf , Meijer, Ingeborg , Mejlgaard, Niels , Otero-Hermida, Paula , Perruchas, François , Rommetveit, Kjetil , Stack, Shauna , Strand, Roger , Wicher, Magdalena , Wienand, Carolina , Woolley, Richard , Yorulmaz, Merve

This deliverable contains descriptions of the results of Task 5.4 and includes a synthesis narrative across the full set of case studies implemented in WP5.

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The institutionalisation of a new paradigm at policy level

2023 , Daimer, Stephanie , Berghäuser, Hendrik , Lindner, Ralf

The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has experienced a remarkable career within the European Union's policies for funding research and innovation, culminating in the embedding of RRI as a cross-cutting issue in the Horizon 2020 (H2020) framework programme. However, despite favourable conditions, empirical evidence shows that efforts to mainstream RRI at the level of policy practice and implementation by and large failed. With the aim of better understanding the reasons for the limited success of mainstreaming RRI, the authors draw on the concept of Deep Institutionalisation (DI) and adapt it to the analysis of institutionalisation processes related to policy practice and implementation. The adapted DI concept is applied to H2020 by using recent findings from RRI research to provide empirical illustration. The results suggest that key preconditions for the successful institutionalisation of RRI policies were not fulfilled. Specifically, broader policy debates reaching beyond the confines of a small policy arena within the European Commission, a lack of experimental embedding allowing for adjustment to different contexts, and the development of ownership in particular were not achieved. Building on the cornerstones of the DI concept, the authors conclude that attempts to mainstream RRI in H2020 have been premature.

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Tracing technology assessment internationally - TA activities in12 countries across the globe

2023 , Hahn, Julia , Heyen, Nils B. , Lindner, Ralf

This chapter aims to describe and highlight current and relevant developments of technology assessment (TA) across several countries and attempts to cluster these according to main areas of activity or modes of institutionalization. By tracing current TA or "TA-like" activities in selected countries across the globe, it highlights several developments, initiatives, or methods, which are interesting and relevant for a global perspective on TA. The focus of this chapter is mainly on non-European countries, which are part of the globalTA network. This provides a unique impression of TA-like activities in Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Czechia, India, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Slovakia, Russia, and the USA. This provides an overview of the heterogeneity of socio-political systems, modes of institutionalization of TA, and TA practices in the different countries observed. Yet at the same time, a TA core is visible, addressing potentials and risks of emerging technologies, ways of doing responsible research and innovation, issues of trust and acceptance by the public and different stakeholders, science and technology governance, and the like.

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